| lapse | | |
| n. (act) | 1. lapse, oversight | a mistake resulting from inattention. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| n. (time) | 2. lapse | a break or intermission in the occurrence of something.; "a lapse of three weeks between letters" |
| ~ pause, intermission, suspension, interruption, break | a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something. |
| n. (act) | 3. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting | a failure to maintain a higher state. |
| ~ failure | an act that fails.; "his failure to pass the test" |
| ~ recidivism | habitual relapse into crime. |
| v. (motion) | 4. lapse, pass, sink | pass into a specified state or condition.; "He sank into nirvana" |
| ~ move | go or proceed from one point to another.; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" |
| v. (change) | 5. lapse | end, at least for a long time.; "The correspondence lapsed" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| v. (change) | 6. backslide, lapse | drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards. |
| ~ drop away, fall away, slip, drop off | get worse.; "My grades are slipping" |
| v. (body) | 7. fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress | go back to bad behavior.; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" |
| ~ retrovert, revert, regress, turn back, return | go back to a previous state.; "We reverted to the old rules" |
| v. (possession) | 8. lapse | let slip.; "He lapsed his membership" |
| ~ forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forego, forgo | lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" |
| v. (motion) | 9. elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by | pass by.; "three years elapsed" |
| ~ advance, march on, move on, progress, go on, pass on | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.; "Time marches on" |
| ~ fell, vanish, fly | pass away rapidly.; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" |
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